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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179473 | Pivoting structure coupled to a rotatable housing structure Disclosed are pivoting structures and methods of pivoting structure. The pivoting structures can include a movable shutter plate including an aperture, pivotally fastened to a supporting plate by the pivot pin, and having a slot that receives a slot pin of a rotator... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144451 | Mobile electronic device with dovetail connector An improved mobile electronic device is disclosed. The mobile electronic device (10) can include: a housing (12) including a front cover (14) and a rear cover (16), the rear cover (16) configured to interconnect with the front cove... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139367 | Torsion spring mechanism supportive of a flexible printed circuit Disclosed is a torsion spring mechanism that supports and guides a flexible printed circuit for use in an electronic device with a sliding motion. The spring mechanism includes a first segment and a second segment that are joined by a torsion spring. The torsion spr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127197 | Method and apparatus for radio link control padding for enhanced general packet radio service A method (300) for radio link control padding is shown. In its simplest form, it can include the steps of: providing (310) N bytes of data from a base station; interleaving (320) the N bytes of data using a turbo-interleaver; pre-pending (330... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126054 | Method and apparatus for highly scalable intraframe video coding An apparatus and method is provided for highly scalable intraframe video coding. The conventional macroblock DCT tools are integrated with the subband filter banks for the improved efficiency of scalable compression. The enhancement layers are represented in a subba... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121655 | Method and device for improving battery life of a mobile station A method (150) and device (200) for conserving energy in a power storage device of a mobile station (102, 110), including: selecting (155) an alert mode associated with a mobile station, the alert mode including at least one of: silent al... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8049715 | Method and system for accessing data stored in an electronic device A method and a system for accessing data stored in an electronic device (102) are disclosed. The data is stored in a data structure. The data structure includes a plurality of sets. Each of the plurality of sets includes at least one entry with an identical f... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8019394 | Component packaging for handheld communication devices A handheld communication device may comprise a first housing and a second housing. The first housing may include a first keypad and a battery. The second housing may include a second keypad, at least one display, and a printed circuit board. The second housing may b... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009612 | Method of establishing an HRPD signal link A method (10) of establishing an alternate HRPD signaling link between an HRPD access network and an access terminal over a non-HRPD access is disclosed. It includes: providing (12) a signal forwarding function (SFF) (22) between an access termi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004555 | Methods and devices for simultaneous dual camera video telephony Disclosed are mobile communication devices, and methods for mobile communication devices including two video cameras that can operate simultaneously and in real-time. The device includes a first video camera pointing in a first direction and configured to generate a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986983 | Methods and slider form factor devices with continguous surfaces when open Disclosed are methods and devices of a slider form factor device including two housings. The top surface of a lower housing may include a QWERTY keypad, or a display screen of any type. The top surface of an upper housing may include a display screen. The device is ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983204 | Wirelesss communication device and method A wireless communication device (200), including: a housing (210); a controller (220), the controller (220) configured to control the operations of the wireless communication device; memory (270) coupled to the controller (220 | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978088 | Device and method to prolong the life of an energy source A wireless communication device (200) and method (300) adapted to prolong the useful life of an energy storage device is disclosed. In its simplest form, it can include: determining (310) a limit temperature discharge energy rate of an energy st... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7925278 | Method and system for locating a wireless device in a wireless communication network A method and system for locating a Wireless electronic device (200) in a wireless communication network (100) is provided. The method includes sending a ranging code (504) by the wireless electronic device to a predefined number of base stations... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921553 | Method of making a customized wireless communication device A method of making a customized wireless communication device (100) is disclosed. It can include the steps of: inputting (110) customer requirements; generating (120) a checklist of customer requirements; providing (130) an extruded housi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912020 | Methods and devices for dynamic mobile conferencing with automatic pairing Described are methods and systems to preset a Bluetooth enabled headset and a Bluetooth enabled conference hub, so that at the time of a conference call, they are pre-paired and ready for use. Pairing information of a particular Bluetooth headset may be stored with ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910851 | Padstacks capable of receiving domes of dome keypads in a plurality of locations and printed circuit boards utilizing the padstacks Disclosed is a printed circuit board configured for a dome-utilizing keypad configuration including at least one padstack having a plurality of dome switch targets and a plurality of target rings capable of accommodating different key dome locations of a dome keypad... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907896 | Mobile commerce method and device Disclosed are methods for a near-field communication/RFID enabled mobile communication device. The methods include receiving from a first affiche a first near-field communication that initiates a process of an application of the mobile communication device, and rece... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904128 | Retractable lanyard attachment posts and push-push devices Described are mobile communication devices with retractable lanyard attachment posts that can be hidden when not in use. Also disclosed are embodiments of lanyard attachment posts that may include push-push or other mechanisms that a user may engage to deploy or hid... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904094 | Method for reducing wireless communication procedure failure A method for reducing wireless communication procedure failure. The method can include initiating a procedure over an existing radio resource control connection on a universal mobile telecommunication system. The method can also include receiving a connection releas... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7852904 | Method and apparatus for reducing data collisions in a frequency hopping communication system A method in a transmitter for data collision avoidance in an uncoordinated frequency hopping communication system is disclosed. The base station (104) first determines (304) that a first data set to be sent to a first device (105) and a second d... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7820313 | Fuel source recognition and gating apparatus and associated method A gating device (100) and associated method (900) for identifying a fuel container (101) used to refill a fuel cell (102) are presented. A fuel source identification device (103) identifies a fuel container (101) to verify t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808185 | Backlight current control in portable electronic devices A method in a portable electronic device (100) having a user interface illumination (110) is disclosed. The method comprises sensing (202) an ambient light level in a neighborhood of the portable electronic device with a sensor (104) of t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7784366 | Single sided capacitive force sensor for electronic devices A capacitive force sensor (100) includes a substrate (101) having at least one electrode pair (102,103) defining a capacitance disposed thereon. The substrate (101) is fixed relative to a first plate (106). A drive circuit (104 | 08/31/2010 |
| 7764237 | Dual autodiplexing antenna A dual autodiplexing antenna (300) redirects power flow (303) from an unloaded antenna to a loaded antenna, thereby improving communication performance under loaded conditions. The dual autodiplexing antenna (300) includes a first antenna (10... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7751431 | Method and apparatus for distributed speech applications A communication unit (105) includes a communication interface, for transmitting and receiving communications when operably connected to a first communication network; and a processor cooperatively operable with the communication interface. Responsive to recei... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747558 | Method and apparatus to bind media with metadata using standard metadata headers A method for embedding metadata into a media file (100) comprises providing (204) a metadata schema file (204) and a metadata instance file (206). Providing a media file having a binary capable user field. Then compressing (208) th... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747004 | Devices and methods for acoustic usability Disclosed is a mobile communication device and a method including a first housing including a first side and a second side, a display coupled to the first side of the first housing and a second housing movably coupled to the first housing, the second housing being c... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743985 | Method and apparatus for an up-to-date transportation notification system A method for receiving up-to-date transportation information at a user entity (120) in a wireless communication system (100) includes requesting up-to-date transportation information (502), determining which up-to-date transportation information... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738930 | Hinge mechanism for a portable electronic device A hinge mechanism (200) for a portable electronic device (100) is provided. The hinge mechanism includes a first shaft (202) that is capable of rotating about a first axis (206). The hinge mechanism also includes a second shaft (204 | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730385 | Method for decoding a received control channel message with a priori information A wireless communication device employs a method for receiving a message stream on a control channel. According to one embodiment, the wireless communication device receives a message on the control channel. The wireless communication devices attempts to decode the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729703 | Apparatus and method for reporting a channel quality indication to non-serving cells A method in a wireless communication device and an apparatus, such as a wireless communication device, for reporting a channel quality indication to non-serving cells. The device can operate on a shared channel on a serving cell. The device can send a channel qualit... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724194 | Dual autodiplexing antenna A dual autodiplexing antenna (300) redirects power flow (303) from an unloaded antenna to a loaded antenna, thereby improving communication performance under loaded conditions. The dual autodiplexing antenna (300) includes a first antenna (10... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723959 | Method for determining residual battery charge A method is provided for determining a residual charge on a battery (12), comprising applying a discharge pulse to the battery (12) and measuring a first voltage on the battery (12) at a first time (t1). Additional voltages on the bat... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710522 | Liquid crystal device having variable reflected wavelength A liquid crystal device comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal material interposed between a transparent front plate and a back plate. The cholesteric liquid crystal material is switchable between a transparent state and a reflective state in response to an electric... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710481 | Image sensor architecture employing one or more non-volatile memory cells A circuit for use in an image sensor as well as an image sensing system using the circuit are set forth. The circuit comprises a memory device having a non-volatile memory cell, a control gate, a drain and a source. The circuit also employs a photosensitive semicond... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705838 | Movable user interface A wireless communication handset (100) having a movable housing portion (204) coupled to a housing portion (202) that rotates relative to the housing portion. The movable housing portion may be a ring that rotates from one position 200 to... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7684813 | Method and apparatus for establishing direct communication for mobiles in a radio communication system A radiotelephone method includes detecting other mobile stations and identifying possible relay candidates among the other mobile stations. The method then includes communicating information about the candidates to a base station. Communication with a second mobile ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684799 | Method for data transfer with a mobile station while in discontinuous reception state A method for sleep mode during an impending handover is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (104) from a network a handover threshold value. Then once in sleep mode, monitoring (128) a channel condition of a handover candidate cell and determinin... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684755 | Garment for controlling an electronic device Disclosed is a garment (102) made of a particular type of material, the garment can include a garment appendage (104, 108, 110, 112) and a sensor (114, 116) coupled to the garment appendage with the sensor configured to detect activation of the ... | 03/23/2010 |
